Feedback & Reports

An excellebt beat but spoiled due to 6 dogs and people swimming in the river ( it was the first real spring day of the year. There is a public footpath on the north bank that was very well used on this day.
The river was like gin and low. Saw a 3lb trout, so did a dog who jumped on it! Suggest just fishing the south bank which has a walk way away from the footpath. Small hatch of olives.
There are excellent salmon pools on this beat and under different conditions and at a different time of year would be a good prospect.

4 Trout

Sporadic hatches of LDO and Grannom throughout the day. Fish not really switched to either but they did prefer a sedge pattern over a LDO pattern. Had about 10 on dries and the rest on nymphs fished with a French leader. River in good condition and quite low which is how I like it on the main Wye beats. I had forgotten how dicy the wading can be on Gromain and ended up with a double arm dunking in the water.

15 Trout, 5 Grayling

Very warm sunny day. A hatch of blue wings started about 11.30 and lasted for bout an hour. Landed one of 2 pounds then hooked into a big bruiser around 4 pounds. Played him for a few minutes trying to keep him from reaching fast water, put brakes on and we had a mexican standoff for a split second, he won hook straightened, adios amigos. First time on Usk, good size of fish rising in this hour period then river fell silent.

1 Trout

Caught 5 trout to half pound on a bead head under a dry and to a dark olive Klink pattern, finally the fish seemed to have started to rise to the Dark Olives and Grannom (light but steady hatch of both from 11:00) too after 3 quiet days.
Fished 10:30-15:00, very hot, very bright.

5 Trout, 1 Grayling

The day started slowly with little rising and bright sunshine. During the afternoon nymphs were fished progressively deeper until about 4pm when the fish were found. A size 16 Copper John being the pattern doing all the work.
A lovely wbt of approx 15inch and 3 graying in the 10 - 12inch bracket were then taken in the next hour or so. At 5:30pm I called it a day.
Another good day's fishing assisted by the helpful staff at the WUF.

1 Trout, 3 Grayling

3 small rainbow trout returned, 1 rainbow removed.

4 Trout

The river was a little high, but unusually very coloured for most of the day (perhaps there was some river work further upstream?). The weather was clear and sunny, around 15 degrees, no wind. The water was still very cold and there was only a small hatch around the middle of the day, with no fish rising all day. The fish did respond to deep nymph tactics, with the best trout around 12 inches and a bonus grayling over 2 lb. Lovely day to start a late season.

2 Trout, 3 Grayling

My first day booked through W&U Foundation. Two visits made on the day, morning and evening. No visible fish activity on either visit. Will try wet fly next visit.

Drove up previous evening in the camper van and spent a clear starry night in a quiet location. Woke to white frost and ice on the windows. Fished from 7.00 until 8.30 and caught two 1.5lb rainbows on Montana. After breakfast continued fishing in bright sun and and very light breeze with no further luck either on fly or spin. Otheres were catching on worm and fishing deep. A brlliant days weather but little action after the initial success.

2 Trout

We were well looked after at the Royal Lodge Hotel at Symonds Yat East. Thursday was a warm and sunny day. The river looked very inviting with an occasional LDO hatching off, but despite our combined persistence with dries and nymphs we finished up fishless. The salmon fishers that we spoke to at the hotel were similarly placed but we had all enjoyed being out in wonderful surroundings on a great day. Thanks for the reminder about the catch return.